Poetry

Poets Reading the News has an open call for poetry about current events. Topics of interest include - but are not limited to - politics, climate change, health, race, gender, technology, world events, obituaries, gun violence, immigration and cultural news. Before you submit, please review our submission guidelines. 

One submission may be under review per open call at a time; each submission can include up to three (3) poems.

We are committed to featuring essential voices that have been underrepresented throughout journalistic and poetic history. We particularly encourage writers of color, women writers, LGBTQI+ writers, emergent writers, low-income/no-income writers, and/or writers near and far to submit their writing.

We have both a free and a paid submission option; this helps us offset the expenses of Submittable. If you can, we ask you make a small contribution to help our journal. If cost is a barrier, please use our no-cost submission form.

Thank you so much for sharing your writing with us. We look forward to reading your poetry!